Homer on Life and Death Author:Griffin, Jasper Griffin This book demomstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it. Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that current ideas of the limitations of "oral poetry" are unreal, and that Homer embodies a view ... more »of the world both unique and profound.« less